More MS Word

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More MS Word

• There are no readings to accompany this lecture.
• Just use these slides to learn some advanced
  Word skills!

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Inserting Symbols or Special Characters

• You can insert symbols into your document
• a) math operators (Like or ?)
• b) Greek letters (like ? or O)
• c) or fun characters (like ?)
• To insert symbols
• 1) Under the Insert menu, choose Symbol. You
  will see a long list of symbols
• 2) Click on the symbol you want
• 3) Click on insert
• 4) The symbol will be inserted after the cursor

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Inserting Pictures

• You can insert a picture into your document
• a) pictures that you have saved
• b) free clipart from Microsoft
• To insert a picture
• 1) Under the Insert menu, choose Picture.
• 2) Choose
• a) From File, if you have a saved picture
• b) Clip Art to look at free clip art

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Headers and Footers

• If you want to have text at the top or bottom of
  pages in your document, use a header or footer.
• Headers are at the top of a page
• Footers are at the bottom of a page
• Common headers
• last name of author
• page number
• Common footers
• footnotes
• page number
• date last updated

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Headers and Footers(page 2)

• To add or edit a header or footer Under the View
  menu, choose Header and Footer
• A toolbar will appear that allows you to add page
  number, date, etc. automatically.
• You can also type any text that you want.

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Tables

• Create simple tables in Word.
• If you are creating a more complex table that you
  want to later create a graph or chart from, use
  Excel instead
• To create a table in Word, you can either
• 1) draw a table
• 2) insert a table

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Drawing a Table

• Allows you to draw with an electronic pencil. You
  draw the rows and columns.
• To draw a table
• 1) Under the Table menu, choose Draw Table
• 2) A toolbar opens and the cursor turns into a
  pencil
• 3) Drag the pencil across the document to draw
  the outside border of the table
• 4) From the outside borders, draw the rows and
  columns.

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Inserting a Table

• Word automatically creates a table with the
  number of rows and columns that you specify.
• To insert a table
• 1) Under the Table menu, choose Insert then
  choose Table.
• 2) Enter the number of rows and columns that you
  want in your table.
• 3) Click OK.